That's the exact opposite of my experience--everybody I know who's read it loves it madly, myself included. I suppose it's a bit of a self-selected group, since I generally only talk about books with my friends, and our tastes overlap, but we don't agree on everything...
Austen's style is not accessible to everybody, but if you can handle prose that defaults to grammatically complex sentences, she's brilliant and funny. And, although to see Pride and Prejudice only as a romance is to miss much of what makes Austen's work a classic, a work of enduring value over time, it's romantic as hell.